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"My cardiologist says I no longer have AFIB". I didn't think it was a curable disease, so that's news to me?

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I think what it all means is that right now you don’t have AFib even though it can return. Getting an ablation/medication keeps AFib away for whatever amount of time your body reacts to it. I’m praying my ablation works for the rest of my life because I don’t want to get another one - too hard on my body and mind at age 79. Stay well.

It isn't curable. It is blocked or managed. If your heart stops AF suddenly, it somehow blocked its own disordered path that caused the AF in the first place, but the point is that the heart did build that wrong pathway to begin with, meaning it's electrically disordered. There is a good chance you'll be in AF again in the future. No, not a certainty, but a non-negligible chance.